"Consider the source!"

Much of what's popularly reported as "statistical evidence of (fill_in_the_blank)" comes from parties who are NOT disinterested in the results.

With no intention to impugn either of your sources (given my utter lack of familiarity with Dice.com and lack of evidence about the effectiveness, profitability, etc. of job listing sites such that you cited), I would point out that one could infer that a site listing perl jobs might have an interest in showing a growing market. And one need not infer any deliberate skewing (<begin tongue in cheek> while that may sometimes happen in some extraordinary cases <remove tongue from cheek>): sometimes the views of those specifying the data to collect shape the results.

In reply to Re: Are Perl and the dynamic languages dead or what ? by ww
in thread Are Perl and the dynamic languages dead or what ? by szabgab

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